State v. Dudley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This case came up from Rock county on the report of the circuit judge, for the advice and opinion of this court upon certain questions of law which arose on the trial. The defendant was indicted for adultery with Adaline Winders, the wife of John W. Winders. The report of the judge is as follows : To the Hon. Supreme Court of the State qf Wisconsin : “ That upon said trial John W. Winders was produced and sworn as a witness on behalf of the State.
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This case came up from Rock county on the report of the circuit judge, for the advice and opinion of this court upon certain questions of law which arose on the trial. The defendant was indicted for adultery with Adaline Winders, the wife of John W. Winders. The report of the judge is as follows : To the Hon. Supreme Court of the State qf Wisconsin : “ That upon said trial John W. Winders was produced and sworn as a witness on behalf of the State. The counsel for the state then introduced and read in evidence the proceedings in a cause of record in this court, in which the said John W.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Coie, J.
This case was reported to this court by the circuit judge of Rock county, under § 8, Chap. 149, R. S., to take our decision upon the following questions of law which arose during the trial of the cause, to wit:
1. Was the witness, John W. Winders, the divorced husband competent to prove his marriage with his divorced wife, Mary Adaline Winders ?
2. Did the proof of adultery with Mary Adaline Winders support the charge in the indictment, of adultery with Ada-line Winders ?
Upon the first point, we are of the opinion that it was competent to prove by John W. Winders his…
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